A Sketch of Assam: With some account of the Hill TribesButler, John, Major
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A Sketch of Assam: With some account of the Hill Tribes
Butler, John, Major
Assam (India) -- Description and travel; Assam (India) -- Social life and customs; Ethnology -- India -- Assam
The above is the estimated value of good castes, such as Kuletahs,
Kewuts, Kooches. The price of the lower castes, denominated Joges,
Doomes, Cachares, Boreahs, and Burahees, was one-third less.
In the present brief review of Assam it would be foreign to our object
to attempt to describe the events of each reign; we confine ourselves,
therefore, to a short list of the last kings of Assam. (See opposite
page.)
The downfall of the Ahoom kings of Assam may be attributed to their
becoming proselytes to the Hindoo religion in the reign of Jeydhoj
Singh, A.D. 1654; to the religious persecutions of the Muttucks in
the reign of Seeb Singh; to family dissensions and disputes, and the
cruel treatment of Mohun Burjona Gohain. Rodur Singh left five sons,
Seb Singh, Prumutta Singh, Mohun Burjona Gohain,
LIST OF THE LAST KINGS OF ASSAM.
1681, A.D., Gudhadhur Singh. ------------------------------------------+
1695, ,, Bodur Singh. |
1714, ,, Seeb Singh. |
1744, ,, Prumutta Singh. |
1751, ,, Rajeswur Singh. ----------------------+ |
1769, ,, Luckme Singh. | |
1780, ,, Gowree Nath Singh. +---------+----------+ +-------+-------+
1795, ,, Kumuleswur Singh. |Rutneswur Soro junna| |Lechae Namropea|
1810, ,, Chunderkant Singh. |Gohain. | |Rajah. |
1817, ,, Poorunder Singh. +---------+----------+ +------+--------+
1818, ,, Chunderkant Singh reinstated | |
on the throne by the Burmese. +-------+------+ +------+------+
1821, ,, Jogessur Singh placed on the |Byey Bur Juona| |Acodh Gohain.|
throne by the Burmese. |Gohain. | +------+------+
1824-25 ,, Assam conquered by the +-------+------+ |
British troops, and the Burmese | +-----+----+
army expelled the province. +-------+------+ |Kudumdigla|
1833 ,, Poorunder Singh made Rajah |Beignath Singh| |Gohain. |
of Upper Assam, April +-------+------+ +----+-----+
12th, 1833, and deposed by the British | |
Government, Aug. 1835, A.D. +-------+-------+ +----------------+
|Poorunder Singh| | |
+-------+-------+ +--------+-------+ +------+-----+
| |Kumuleswur Singh| |Chunder Kant|
+-------+------+ +----------------+ +----+-------+
|Kumeswur Singh| |
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